A stretch of Arapahoe Avenue in east Boulder closed earlier this afternoon while emergency crews responded to a gas leak in the area has been reopened to traffic, police dispatchers said.

Initial calls about the gas line break near Arapahoe and 63rd Street, possibly caused by Colorado Department of Transportation road work in the area, were received shortly after 3 p.m., according to dispatchers.

Police and fire crews responded to the scene and enforced a traffic closure on Arapahoe in the immediate area for more than an hour this afternoon. That closure was lifted at around 4:20 p.m., dispatchers said.

Xcel Energy spokesman Gabriel Romero said a work crew with the company was still on the scene of the leak at about 4:45 p.m. He said the 2-inch line ruptured in the incident should be repaired by 6 p.m.

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